Most of the liberal politicians are rich, take massive write offs and love to bash the rich to play on peoples emotions. It's all about creating class warfare to be elected on. Terrible for the country and not what Obama said he was going to do during his campaign. He was going to be the great uniter. What happened?

And this is news how?? The man has been saying this all along. He's been pushing this as an issue of fairness. What part of that argument were you deliberately trying to not understand? You're a right winger and you love the home team, that's obvious. But stop trying to create a story when there really is none. If you're that hard up for raves, just ask for them. BTW, isn't there some anti-woman blog that sets women back a hundred years that you should be defending??

good grief. Obama does not get to pick what tax rate he pays. If he were to send the IRS extra money, they would send it back to him. He wants to change the law. Paying the current tax rate does not make him a hypocrite.

I am sick and tired of hearing this misrepresentation of the taxes paid by the wealthy. There is a difference between taxes on wages and taxes on investments. The taxes on the investments ( capital gains) is a tax on monies that have already been paid when earned. Those earned monies are then invested and taxed at a different rate, Therefore, they are double taxed. Get it folks. This is nothing more than political gargage. And Buffet who Obama touts, needs to pay the million he owes in taxes, but instead he is fighting it in court.

Now you are getting it. We all pay regular taxes on my earned income.better known as wages. Invested monies are taxed as captial gains. Where do you think folks get the monies to invest? I am more concerned about all the Americans who get more back in a tax refund than they paid. I will give you a quick example. I recently did the taxes for someone who earned 35,000 last year. The amount deducted from this persons pay for taxes was just a little over 1,500. Now because this person has two children, the amount they will receive as an IRS refund was 6,952. I have a big problem with that. I do not believe any person should get more back than they paid in. It is like getting a bonus at tax time. There are a lot more of these cases than millionaires paying 15% on their investments.

I have no problem with folks getting back what they paid into the IRS, but I do have a huge problem with them receiving thousand more over and above what they paid. And we wonder why we have such huge deficits.................duh. It is money we do not have and cannot afford to be handing it out.